Christine Jennings lost her 2006 challenge to incumbent Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan by the narrowest of margins, and there were voting abnormalities in some precincts. She's been fighting the result in court ever since, but now she is also announcing she will try to unseat Buchanan again next year. The Florida Masochist reports:
Jennings announcement comes as no surprise to me. In the meantime Christine Jennings should give up her legal challenge of last year's election. Without a doubt, human error caused problems in the balloting. But no one can tell for sure, what effect it would have had. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, a paper owned by the NY Times, has called for Jennings to give up the fight over what happened and I agree. Jennings is sounding more like a sore loser with every passing day.
Read the rest at the link above. 2006 was a year which saw a Democratic tide, but Jennings wasn't carried far enough. As I recall, the 13th District is a "swing" district which has tended to lean Republican. If Jennings couldn't win in 2006, I don't see her succeeding in 2008 after behaving like such a sore loser ever since Election Night.
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